On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 19:49:18 PDT, just as I was about to take a herb,
MJNelson disturbed my reverie and wrote:

>As I understand it, when you upgrade to Win 10 you lose your current
>licensed copy of Windows. Check it out

Doesn't the usual trick of installing a copy of Win x, not authorising
it and them using that as a valid upgrade work anymore. Happy to get a
free copy of Win 10, but not if I *have* to upgrade current working
installs/copies of Win 7.
--
Cheers,

DrT

** You've never known happiness until you're married;
** but by then it is too late.

What I did wonder is if I can use 2 installs of Win 10, the first time
with no install code like with Win 7?
Mary

On 6/7/2015 12:50 AM, DrTeeth wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 19:49:18 PDT, just as I was about to take a herb,
> MJNelson
>
> disturbed my reverie and wrote:
>
>> As I understand it, when you upgrade to Win 10 you lose your current
>> licensed copy of Windows. Check it out
>
> Doesn't the usual trick of installing a copy of Win x, not authorising
> it and them using that as a valid upgrade work anymore. Happy to get a
> free copy of Win 10, but not if I *have* to upgrade current working
> installs/copies of Win 7.
>

What I've read so far is that for the free upgrade, you must start the process from a running, eligible OS (7 or 8.1), and while you can go back to your previous OS if you want, you can't dual boot to it. I have no idea what would happen if you went ahead and upgraded, then restored the old OS from an image backup.

On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 23:04:55 PDT, just as I was about to take a herb,
EdBrady disturbed my reverie and wrote:

>What I've read so far is that for the free upgrade, you must start the process from a running, eligible OS (7 or 8.1)
As you say, an upgrade version just has to find a valid running
version. That is often the latest version itself, so can one upgrade a
newly uninstalled and unregistered version of , say, Vista or 7. This
may apply to v10 too.

So one has an upgrade version DVD of Win 7. So one installs Win 7 from
the upgrade disk and does NOT register or activate it.

One then reboots and uses your Win 7 upgrade disk to upgrade your
unregistered Win 7 version. This does work; go figure, but we are
talking about MSoft.

--
Cheers,

DrT

** You've never known happiness until you're married;
** but by then it is too late.

Makes sense.
BUT - that makes it an upgrade install. That is what I would not want.
Mary

On 6/13/2015 6:56 PM, DrTeeth wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 23:04:55 PDT, just as I was about to take a herb,
> EdBrady disturbed my reverie and wrote:
>
>> What I've read so far is that for the free upgrade, you must start the process from a running, eligible OS (7 or 8.1)
> As you say, an upgrade version just has to find a valid running
> version. That is often the latest version itself, so can one upgrade a
> newly uninstalled and unregistered version of , say, Vista or 7. This
> may apply to v10 too.
>
> So one has an upgrade version DVD of Win 7. So one installs Win 7 from
> the upgrade disk and does NOT register or activate it.
>
> One then reboots and uses your Win 7 upgrade disk to upgrade your
> unregistered Win 7 version. This does work; go figure, but we are
> talking about MSoft.
>